Using Beijing, Shanghai, Guiyang, Jiangsu, Shenyang, and networked archives as observation points, this research encyclopedia explains why transgender public history forms dense documentary clusters in a small number of cities and introduces an evidence-geography matrix and a city-interface ledger.

Using ShanghaiPRIDE press releases, film-program pages, Trans Pride materials, beneficiary lists, and annual recaps from 2009–2020, this guide traces transgender visibility from inclusion in the LGBT category to gender-focused programming, a dedicated Trans Pride event, and explicit multi-city resource links. It introduces an event-archive layer table and a transgender-visibility routing map.

A source-based comparison of how names, sex markers, and identity-card numbers move through admission records, active student status, graduation, national electronic credential registration, CHSI, and later verification, with an education-record state matrix and credential-divergence ledger.

Tracing how transgender and gender-diverse mental-health research in mainland China moved from clinical and urban convenience samples toward national surveys, school samples, minority-stress measures, family and school mechanisms, service utilization, and culturally adapted measurement, this article proposes a mental-health evidence matrix and a mechanism-chain ledger.

Traces how national medical rules, population surveys, youth studies, family-violence research, clinical collaboration, and community support records have documented transgender people’s relationships with families since 2009, and proposes a family-interface matrix and relationship-state ledger for separating notification, material dependence, disclosure, violence or change efforts, clinical participation, and peer support.

A clause-by-clause comparison of mainland China’s 2009, 2017, and 2022 national rules for gender reassignment surgery, covering terminology, hospital and surgeon qualifications, applicant documents, age and marital status, diagnosis, ethics, legal-document interfaces, training, reporting, and quality control.

Traces the evolution of evidence on transgender school experience in mainland China from early campus-bullying surveys through transgender-specific adolescent studies, school samples, school-climate models, and long-term educational outcomes, and proposes a school-evidence ladder and education-path ledger.

A research encyclopedia entry tracing how CCMD-3, ICD-10, ICD-11, national medical-technology rules, and hospital services overlap in mainland Chinese transgender care, with a diagnostic-migration ledger and four-clock model for distinguishing international classification, professional use, clinical interfaces, and regulation.

An annotated archive guide using Queer China, ‘Comrade’ China, Brothers, Sunken Plum, A Day of Trans, and The Last Year of Darkness to distinguish historical documentary, community documentary, fiction, trans-authored life documentary, and queer-scene documentary while tracing premieres, festivals, platforms, distribution, and retrospective screenings.

A source-critical guide that decomposes “first” claims in mainland China’s transgender medical history into procedure scope, geography, institution, publicity, administrative effect, event time, and source role, comparing the 1983 Zhang Kesha surgery, regional surgery histories of the 1990s, marriage registration in 2003, Geng Zi’s public identity in 2005–2006, and national technical rules from 2009 to 2022.